Farewell to Farrah

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) - Friends and family of Farrah Fawcett - including ex-husband Ryan O'Neal and their son Redmond, who was temporarily freed from jail for the service - gathered Tuesday to say goodbye to actress Farrah Fawcett.

Fawcett, the blonde-maned actress whose best-selling poster and "Charlie's Angels" stardom made her one of the most famous faces in the world, died Thursday. She was 62, and had battled anal cancer off and on for three years.

Tuesday's service at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles was private and closed to the media. The family did not release details about who would deliver the eulogy or how many people had been invited.

Fawcett's beauty - her gleaming smile was printed on millions of posters - initially made her famous. But she later established herself as a serious actress. She starred as a battered wife in the 1984 TV movie "The Burning Bed," and appeared on stage as a woman who extracts vengeance from a would-be rapist in William Mastrosimone's play "Extremities," a performance she reprised on film in 1986.